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Morning peeps......[ram27bat]

Morning.

Thoughts and prayers for Bucky's flu. Funny how it almost always hits around a weekend.

Happy Thursday fellas.

Spam n eggs on rice this morning. Figgy pudding flavored spam. Smells like old ladies but tastes much better.

Russ have you looked into open office instead? Cross compatible, less bloat runs better on more systems, and its free

Hmmm.. Nope never heard of it, but Thanks I'll check it out... this laptop has been upgraded with the windows 10 platform btw.. I think this may be part of my problem with the old Office program not wanting to run right...

Hell yes.

Stop using M$. They don't need the money.

Ok Ok I've got to ask this one question... will it run my already created MS Office document files? or will I have to try and save them as this new program or create new files?

where I am at right now, copying my word documents into a PowerPoint presentation and this is where my MS Office systems are locking up... I'd pull my hair out if I had any!!! LOL

If the files aren't corrupted, it can use them.

That's what's great about it. It's free and compatible with the paid standards

Good Thursday Morning to All! It's a cloudy 51° on the way to 60° today. Enjoying some very hot coffee in my ember heated coffee cup, a Christmas gift from a Grandson and his lovely wife.

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I came back from my morning 5 miler to find two distinct tracks of some hooved animals had gone through my front yard. Anybody missing some cows?

Grocery store for burger buns.

Back to the couch. Another boring day.

For the most part you have absolutely nothing to worry about. Generally data files are independent of the software used to create/open them. In some instances it’s possible that new programs will convert data files to a new standard, but even so usually the new standard is backwards compatible to the older standards. For example excel has been saving files with a .xlsx. Prior to Office 2007 the excel file extension was .xls. However, in newer versions of excel you can save the file as an .xls if you anticipate using legacy software. Most free versions of software use the same file formats and extensions as the commercial versions. Just make sure that’s the case before you go converting old files to a new file type.

Newer versions of Office are backward compatible meaning that they should be able to read files created on previous versions as long as they are not corrupted as danm said.

If you are installing a fresh copy of Office 2007 it has a ton of updates that wants. It came out in 2006 and they stopped supporting it in 2017 so there's about 11 years of updates that it will want to do (security updates as such). Your system might not catch them all right away when you tell it to look for updates, it may take a few days for it to catch them all and some of the updates require a reboot. With that said it should work just fine even without having it completing all of it's updates.

I still use Office 2007 and install it on machines that I inherit to rebuild and donate. Sometimes it takes like 3 days of telling it to check for updates for the system to find all the Office 2007 updates. It still runs and is solid. If you need a fresh copy of Office 2007, drop me a message and I can mail you an install Office 2007 on a thumb drive. It's the Enterprise version that includes just about every Office package: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Picture Manger, Publisher, Access, One Note, and a couple others..

Also as others have said LibreOffice and OpenOffice are rather popular. They are open source software (free) that does most everything MS Office can do. They both can read and save to MS versions along with other formats that can be read by most operating systems including Linux and Mac and by most other software packages. LibreOffice and OpenOffice are pretty similar (they are related) and the user interface looks a lot like MS Office. There is a little bit to get used to like where things are located in the pull down menus but it's not complicated by any means. I've used both but slightly lean toward. LibreOffice.

In LibreOffice it has Writer (word processor like Word), Calc (spreadsheet like Excel), Impress (like PowerPoint), Base (database like Access), Draw (make cards and stuff like Publisher).

I'm not a fan of Office 365 but I have to use it at work. At home I use Office 2007 or LibreOffice.

I always get a little anxious this time of year. My wife's birthday is 12/31 and I have always cooked a birthday dinner for her at home. Neither of us want to venture out to a restaurant and compete with those crazies celebrating the end of one year and the beginning of another.

She asked for a prime rib roast this year...it's been awhile since I made one...both of our kids and their families will join us along with our SIL's Mother...7 adults and four kids. Figure a 10 lb roast should be plenty. Making garlic mashed potatoes...daughter making Brussels sprouts and my son will make a green salad. Wife asked for a white cake with whipped cream frosting and fresh fruit topping.

Plan on a rib roast New Years Day... only side I requested was French onion soup... not sure what else is on the menu... I've never made escargots at home. Not even sure where to find them around here.. [
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^ That sounds yummy from both Drafter (except for the snails) and delta.

It will be a small gathering here. Me, daughter, son, his girlfriend. We don't have a meal planned set in stone.

Prolly do up a couple rib eyes for those that want beef, do up some chicken breast for those that want chicken. I have a craving for a nice bacon cheeseburger, my tummy tells me I should digest one of those, and maybe make more of those if others want them. I'm a simpleton (mental note, need to buy some bacon) but how can you pass up a nice bacon cheeseburger?

Daughter works on the weekends at a coffee/bakery/bagel/cheese cake place that's only open for breakfast and lunch. The goods are made fresh every morning and they toss out stuff that they don't sell at the end of the day so she'll probably have the deserts covered.

Looking forward to a relaxing 4 day weekend.

Oh, wait... I'm sick, bed ridden and might die before the New Year. My belly is not cooperating, my sinuses are plugged, I have a splitting headache, I stubbed my pinky toe and so on. (actually my boss mentioned to me that I have 25 hrs of sick time and if it isn't used I lose it... know what I mean? wink wink, nod, nod).

This week at work has been skeleton crew. Folks have been burning sick time and vacation hours that they can't carry over. Spring and summer are the busy times of the company. As fall and winter sets in, it slows down.

Setting up for Bucky [ram27bat]

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